A commercially available porous silica rod column was used as a separation tool for the sequential injection analysis (SIA). A porous solid monolithic column showed high performance at a low pressure, allowing sequential injection analysis to be used for the first time for separation in HPLC fashion. In this contribution, we tried to demonstrate a new separation concept with SIA manifold for the simultaneous determination of four different compounds (methylparaben (MP), propylparaben (PP), triamcinolone acetonide (TCA) and internal standard ketoprofen (KP)) in a pharmaceutical triamcinolon cream 0.1% formulation. A Chromolith Flash RP-18e, 25 mm x 4.6 mm column with a 10 mm pre-column (Merck, Germany) and a FIAlab 3000 system (USA) with an 8-port selection valve and 10 ml syringe were used for sequential injection chromatographic separations in our study. The mobile phase used was acetonitrile-methanol-water (35:5:65, v/v/v) + 0.05% nonylamine, pH 2.5, flow rate 0.6 ml min(-1). The analysis time was <6 min. A novel sequential injection chromatography (SIC) technique with UV spectrophotometric detection was optimised and validated.

The Research Centre LN00B125 Department of Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Pharmacy Charles University Heyrovského 1203 Hradec Králové 500 05 Czech Republic

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